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RE: Barge use in the modern age. - Fab - 10-31-2023
(10-31-2023, 02:49 AM)Eichy Bumm Wrote: Just a curiosity. Can a mining ship load a barge with ore by selecting the barge and then mining? Or has that changed?
this hasn't changed, it still works
RE: Barge use in the modern age. - Eichy Bumm - 10-31-2023
(10-31-2023, 02:59 AM)Fab Wrote:(10-31-2023, 02:49 AM)Eichy Bumm Wrote: Just a curiosity. Can a mining ship load a barge with ore by selecting the barge and then mining? Or has that changed?
this hasn't changed, it still works
Not sure as I had a barge being filled by a Hegemon and it would not load, so is there a problem with the technique? Or is it craft related?
RE: Barge use in the modern age. - Eichy Bumm - 10-31-2023
OK, lets do the maths. It takes 15000 units of Gold Ore to fill a barge. New London buys it for 30sc/unit. That is 450000 new SC (45 million old SC). A mining ship used to get about 2000 (20)sc/unit and for 6x 5000k transports = 20 x 15000 - 30 million old Sirus credits or 300k new SC. This leaves just 10 million (100k today to transport and make a profit on.
There is no money in mining it seems either for the miner operator or the transport pilot.
RE: Barge use in the modern age. - SwiftWing - 10-31-2023
I know a Barge can still tractor what ore is in space
RE: Barge use in the modern age. - Eichy Bumm - 10-31-2023
(10-31-2023, 03:51 AM)SwiftWing Wrote: I know a Barge can still tractor what ore is in space
Yes, that is what we did. So appreciated the IMG miner who thoughtfully helped me.
RE: Barge use in the modern age. - Nika - 10-31-2023
Mining is now a source of refined goods which make the actual profit.
RE: Barge use in the modern age. - Eichy Bumm - 10-31-2023
(10-31-2023, 05:11 AM)Yazov Wrote: Mining is now a source of refined goods which make the actual profit.
True, but one needs to have it mined which requires two players. There is not much fat left for paying the transport cost if paying a miner takes most of the credits.
RE: Barge use in the modern age. - Nika - 10-31-2023
Except it never took and won't ever be taking most of the credits.
RE: Barge use in the modern age. - Kauket - 10-31-2023
Treat the barge as a floating storage device, IMO.
I have a gamer use for it, mainly with Uncharted Ores because it's excellent as a moving storage depot basically.
I wouldn't do cross system trading with it.
RE: Barge use in the modern age. - St.Denis - 10-31-2023
(10-31-2023, 03:38 AM)Eichy Bumm Wrote: OK, lets do the maths. It takes 15000 units of Gold Ore to fill a barge. New London buys it for 30sc/unit. That is 450000 new SC (45 million old SC). A mining ship used to get about 2000 (20)sc/unit and for 6x 5000k transports = 20 x 15000 - 30 million old Sirus credits or 300k new SC. This leaves just 10 million (100k today to transport and make a profit on.
There is no money in mining it seems either for the miner operator or the transport pilot.
Canary Wharf is paying 45 credits per unit for Gold Ore.